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The Valentine Davies Award, named after Valentine Davies, is a special award given to a member of the Writers Guild of America, West whose contributions to the entertainment industry and the community-at-large have brought dignity and honor to writers everywhere.[1]

Recipients

Year Person(s) Reference
1962 Mary C. McCall Jr. [1]
1963 Allen Rivkin
1964 Morgan Cox
1965 James R. Webb
1966 Leonard Spigelgass
1967 Edmund H. North
1968 George Seaton
1969 Dore Schary
1970 Richard Murphy
1971 Dan Taradash
1972 Michael Blankfort & Norman Corwin
1973 William Ludwig
1974 Ray Bradbury & Philip Dunne
1975 Fay Kanin
1976 Winston Miller
1977 Carl Foreman
1978 Norman Lear
1979 Melville Shavelson
1980 David W. Rintels
1981 Arthur Orloff
1982 Mort R. Lewis
1983 Hal Kanter
1984 Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
1985 Charles Champlin
1986 Ronald Austin
1987 William Froug
1988 Lois Peyser
1989 Michael Kanin & Garson Kanin
1990 John Furia Jr.
1991 Frank Pierson
1992 Allan Burns
1993 True Boardman
1994 Phil Alden Robinson
1995 Garry Marshall
1996 Mike Farrell
1997 Jonathan Estrin & Shelley List (posthumously)
1998 Gary David Goldberg
1999 Barry Kemp
2000 Alan Alda
2001 Paul Haggis
2002 David Angell (posthumously)
2003 Aaron Ruben
2004 Neal Baer
2005 Irma Kalish [2]
2006 Not presented
2007 Larry Gelbart
2008 Tom Schulman
2009 Carl Reiner & Victoria Riskin [3]
2010 Not presented
2011 Seth Freeman & Susannah Grant [4]
2012 Philip Rosenthal
2013 Sam Simon
2014 Ben Affleck
2016 John August
2017 Richard Curtis
2018 Dustin Lance Black
2020 Brad Falchuk

References

  1. ^ a b "Valentine Davies Award Previous Recipients". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  2. ^ "Veteran TV Writer Irma Kalish to Receive Valentine Davies Award From Writers Guild of America, west". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  3. ^ "Carl Reiner and Victoria Riskin to Receive WGAW's Valentine Davies Award". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  4. ^ "Writers Seth Freeman and Susannah Grant Named 2011 WGAW Valentine Davies Award Honorees". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
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